Ontario's new license plates have a problem: you can't read them

It would be nice if some of the US states without tolls could do this on purpose, because many of the ones with them use them primarily to extract revenue from out of state drivers disproportionate to the cost of their use of the roads.

This would also improve the privacy of their citizens, since it would presumably also interfere with ALPR in general and keep their vehicles' location history from ending up in adversarial third party databases.

Anti-ALPR license plates are a feature, not a bug.

He drew the new "Ontario Line" subway with a marker, replacing decades of planning for the Relief Line Toronto needs desperately. The subway is dangerously overcrowded at peak times and these changes will likely set the opening date back years.

He ordered gas stations to display a sticker showing the cost of the federal carbon tax simply because he doesn't like it with no planning. That was after scrapping the existing cap and trade program with a single pen stroke (costing the province hundreds of millions in broken contracts). Leaving the existing program alone would have meant no federal carbon tax.

He invented an environmental issues with bats to halt construction on a partially complete windfarm. Even local bat experts have no idea what he's talking about.

He passed a law saying public servants can't get a raise more than 1% prior to negotiating with the various teacher unions so he could negotiate in bad faith. After claiming there was no money for teachers he started paying parents a per diem for childcare during the rotating strikes.

During an active election he changed the number of councillors in Toronto city hall and threatened to use the notwithstanding clause to enforce it.

Those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. All of these policies were announced with no public discussion, input period, or time to contact MPPs. Simply dreamt up by Dougie on the weekend and implemented Monday morning.

Premiers of provinces have a ton of power and not much beyond parliamentary norms hold them in check. Doug has exploited this to an extreme extent.

The Greater Toronto Area is very progressive, but once you travel out of that area, it very much resembles the US' flyover states - in appearance and politics. Ford spends all of his time campaigning in dinky little towns that hate Toronto.